Mark Leckey warns of and celebrates gadgetry

Mark Leckey describes himself as an essayist but he uses images, sound and performance rather than words.

So it is tricky to reflect his work in a conventional gallery exhibition. Take BigBoxStatueAction (2003-10) at the Serpentine: Leckey's Sound System (2003) faces Henry Moore's Upright Motive: No.9 (1979) but the relationship is only properly animated in Leckey's Thursday night Serpentine performances. Otherwise it feels like actors waiting for a script.

GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction (2010-11) is more effective. It is based on Leckey's recent performance in which he gives voice to a Samsung smart fridge, while standing amid a green screen stage. The fridge and set remain, and Leckey's performance, an autotuned monologue, is relayed on two screens. It is both a celebration and warning of gadgetry: in humanising the fridge, Leckey himself becomes de-humanised. Another Sound System accompanies the video Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), a strangely moving paean to youth and club culture.